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Jeanne Dark is a post-punk, shoegaze, industrial, and doom project from Zurich, Switzerland (listed under Hungary), that emerged in 2024 using raw analog technology and mystical sounds. Their debut singles including Guillotine and Der Apparat explore themes of mental anguish through atmospheric, genre-blending dark alternative music inspired by the historical French freedom fighter.
Jebes Ime is a Croatian heavy band from Dakovo that blends blues, crust, grindcore, hardcore, sludge, and stoner rock into an aggressive hybrid. Their album Dakovo je umiruca kurva (2012) was recorded at Studio Pecina, delivering four tracks of diverse, genre-crossing heaviness.
Jechane is a Polish metal band from Tuczno whose debut album War in Your Head (2016) delivers thrash, death, and progressive metal with heavy growl vocals and thrashy guitars. Recorded at Szafa Records Studio, the album features thirteen tracks exploring themes of mental conflict and psychological darkness.
Redding, California's Jefferson Death Trooper are a no-frills thrash metal band formed in 2021 with a clear reverence for the genre's classic Bay Area template — fast, aggressive, and built around the kind of pit-ready riffs that don't need a gimmick.
Jenner is a heavy/thrash metal band from Belgrade, Serbia, formed in 2013 and delivering energetic, riff-driven metal. Their releases including Prove Them Wrong and To Live Is To Suffer channel classic thrash aggression through a tightly wound Serbian metal sound.
Out of Brattleboro, Vermont, Jeopardy play hard-nosed thrash with a crossover edge that tips its hat to the genre's hardcore roots, forging a pit-driven, riff-forward sound since 2011 that doesn't waste a second on subtlety.
Jerk is a thrash metal band from Switzerland that delivers aggressive, high-energy metal with a raw and confrontational edge. Their stripped-down approach to thrash draws on the intensity of the genre's classic era while maintaining a distinctly Swiss underground identity.
Jester Beast is a thrashcore band from Turin, Italy, formed in 1983 and known for evolving from power/speed metal into crazily fast thrashcore blending Italian hardcore with Voivod-esque riffs. Their 1988 demo was significant enough for Nuclear Blast Records to feature three tracks on a compilation, and The Lost Tapes Of... Poetical Freakscream (2018) remastered that overlooked Italian thrash gem.
Jesushed is a thrash and heavy metal band founded in 2014 by Fabio Curtis in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil. Drawing on Christian faith without being a strictly gospel act, the band's songs address current events, biblical narratives, and social themes. Their discography spans the debut album Born Again (2014), the EPs 350 graus (2016), Fim dos tempos (2018), and Supermother (2020), with Curtis handling vocals, guitars, and production throughout.
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